Walker is the most anti-immigrant presidential candidate in the Republican field, in a year when the GOP is trying to court the Latino vote

Protections under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals will start to expire in September. USCIS wants those seeking a renewal to apply between 120-150 days in advance.

Under the delayed plan, Dreamers who received DACA and who are deemed to be in possession of "vital" skills could enlist in the military and eventually receive citizenship.

Respondents to the largest survey of undocumented millennials showed those who received work authorization and protection from deportation felt more secure and at home in the US. But many still feel anxiety for undocumented friends and family and over a $465 fee to reapply when the two-year protection runs out.

About 82 percent of the 673,417 people who submitted applications since June 2012 have received temporary relief from deportation and work authorization.

Initial changes may include granting lengthier background checks of detainees and shortening the time period undocumented immigrants are considered recent entries.

Muñoz told Fusion's Leon Krauze that Obama did not have the authority to extend deportation relief to those who would get legal status under a Senate bill which died last summer in the House.

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus returned from a meeting with DHS head Jeh Johnson seeming pleased with what they'd been told.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has released a series of recommendations for the Obama administration which includes extending protection from deportation to a much greater group of undocumented immigrants.

The first of three immigration-related bills -- which take aim at the president in part for his creation of DACA, defund an immigrant-advocate position within ICE, and require the Attorney General to report to Congress whenever a Justice Department official doesn't administer the law -- passed the House on Wednesday.

With House Republicans unwilling to pass immigration reform this year, a growing list of groups are calling for the president to extend deportation protections to a much broader range of the nation’s 11.7 million undocumented immigrants. But the USCIS may not be ready to handle that.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and two state transportation department officials filed a document on Tuesday expanding the state’s ban on issuing licenses to undocumented immigrants.

The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security wrote in a statement on the one-year birthday of DACA that the deferred deportation program was a temporary solution to a bigger problem.

Only 49 percent of those eligible applied for a two-year deferral of deportation procedures and workplace authorization, according to a new study by the Migration Policy Institute. Why is that number so low?